Ezekiel 32:3

BSB · Public Domain (CC0)

“This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘I will spread My net over you with a company of many peoples, and they will draw you up in My net.”

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BSBPD

“This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘I will spread My net over you with a company of many peoples, and they will draw you up in My net.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“Thus saith the Lord God; I will therefore spread out my net over thee with a company of many people; and they shall bring thee up in my net.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: I will spread out my net upon thee with a company of many peoples; and they shall bring thee up in my net.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“Thus said the Lord Jehovah: And--I have spread out for thee My net, With an assembly of many peoples, And they have brought thee up in My net.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Ezekiel 32:3 — 7 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Ecclesiastes 9:12For surely no man knows his time: Like fish caught in a cruel net or birds trapped in a snare, so men are ensnared in an evil time that suddenly falls upon them.
  2. Jeremiah 16:16But for now I will send for many fishermen, declares the LORD, and they will catch them. After that I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them down on every mountain and hill, even from the clefts of the rocks.
  3. Lamentations 1:13He sent fire from on high, and it overpowered my bones. He spread a net for my feet and turned me back. He made me desolate, faint all the day long.
  4. Ezekiel 12:13But I will spread My net over him, and he will be caught in My snare. I will bring him to Babylon, the land of the Chaldeans; yet he will not see it, and there he will die.
  5. Ezekiel 17:20I will spread My net over him and catch him in My snare. I will bring him to Babylon and execute judgment upon him there for the treason he committed against Me.
  6. Hosea 7:12As they go, I will spread My net over them; I will bring them down like birds of the air. I will chastise them when I hear them flocking together.
  7. Habakkuk 1:14You have made men like the fish of the sea, like creeping things that have no ruler.

Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

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